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unreliable narrators

unreliable narrators is the plural of unreliable narrator.

Meaning of unreliable narrator

Noun

unreliable narrator (plural unreliable narrators)

  1. A narrating character or storyteller in a story (such as a film, novel, play, or song) who provides conflicting, inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise questionable information to the audience or reader.
    • [page 158] For practical criticism probably the most important of these kinds of distance is that between the fallible or unreliable narrator and the implied author who carries the reader with him in judging the narrator. […] [page 159] Unreliable narrators thus differ markedly depending on how far...1961, Wayne C[layson] Booth, “Types of Narration”, in The Rhetoric of Fiction, Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago Press, published 1968, →OCLC, part I (Artistic Purity and the Rhetoric of...

Questions about unreliable narrators

What is unreliable narrators the plural of?
Unreliable narrators is the plural of unreliable narrator.

Words near unreliable narrators in the dictionary

  1. unrelevant
  2. unreliabilities
  3. unreliability
  4. unreliable
  5. unreliable narrator
  6. unreliable narrators
  7. unreliableness
  8. unreliables
  9. unreliably
  10. unreliance
  11. unreliant

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